Podcast Program of Create World 2008

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Making iTunesU work for you

At Create World 2008 Stephen Atherton (Apple) put iTunesU through its paces in a session which posed the question ‘Why should Australasian universities and academics adopt iTunesU?’. That was a question which drew lots and lots of responses, some of them long and detailed, but which mostly boiled down to ‘We’d be mad not to’.

Now we try to maintain a critical edge in this podcast program, but scour the audience as we might for iTunesU cynics, we turned up no-one. iTunesU clearly has a solid fan base amongst Create World delegates, many of whom, including our interviewer Kate Foy, already regularly pick up on the public iTunesU offerings from top US universities. They all reckon that iTunesU is a pretty neat way of getting all sorts of multi-media program material out to students. Its elegant, effective, user-friendly. Its the same familiar interface that students use to access their music and entertainment. And the cost to the hosting institution is almost negligible.

In this podcast episode Lorraine Harker (Flinders University) and Kate Foy get quite excited together about iTunesU. Lorraine does have one bone to pick though – she wants iTunes to be available for Linux and Solaris operating systems as well. (Well at least we found one criticism!).

This is Apple’s own Introduction to iTunesU:

And a simple google search will turn up plenty of people who are pretty happy with whats on offer at iTunesU. This one is typical.